Setting up the Reports database

After you set up the Domino® MailTracker Store database, you can use the Reports database (REPORTS.NSF) to generate and store mail usage reports.

About this task

Although the Reports database is created automatically when you set up the server, before you can generate mail usage reports, you must set up security for the database.

To create the Reports database

Procedure

  1. From the Domino Administrator, choose File > Application > New.
  2. Click Show advanced templates.
  3. Complete these fields and click OK.
    Table 1. Options for a new Reports database
    Field Enter

    Server

    The name of the server that stores the Mail Tracking Store database (MTSTORE.NSF)

    Title

    Reports

    File name

    Reports.nsf

    Template server

    The name of the server entered in the Server field

    Template

    Reports.ntf

To set up security for the Reports database

About this task

Note: Step 4 of this procedure requires use of the Domino Designer client.

Procedure

  1. In Domino Designer, open the Reports database and choose FileApplicationAccess control to open the database ACL.
  2. Verify that the server and the server administrator have Manager access, then click OK.
  3. With the Reports database active in your client, choose View > Agents.
  4. Verify that the scheduled agents (Daily, Monthly, and Weekly Report Agents, and the Housecleaning agents) are enabled. Enable agents as necessary by selecting the agent and clicking Enable; then close the Domino Designer.
  5. From the Domino Administrator, click the Configuration tab, open the Server document for the server where you created the Reports database and click the Security tab.
  6. In the Programmability Restrictions > Run unrestricted methods and operations field, enter the names of administrators who need access to the Reports database, and then click Save & Close.